The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W review

Excited to be unable to buy one of these for the next 3 years!

9:51 A wild Chris appears! I love it when tech YouTubers support and reference each other. Such a healthy community.

This will fit perfectly for purposes where ESP32 doesn't cut it (you need a general purpose OS for flexibility in your project), and a full Raspberry Pi is an overkill (either from compute or cost perspective). For e.g. as an infra/SRE guy, I want to use half a dozen of Pi Zero 2 to drive (old/salvaged) LCD screens all around my home to display various dashboards & notifications, so I can spend time with my family better without having to constantly check my phone or run to desk intermittently to check for incidents. If I can actually get my hand on any of those, that is...

You, Explaining Computers and ETAPrime all announced the board at the same time lol. Can't wait to get one

To me, this is just highlighting how late the release version of 64bit RasPiOS is! Now there is even a Zero-sized board that could benefit from it (with care about RAM usage).

ETA prime got it stable at 1.3 with heat sink. Can’t wait to buy a few of these 😄

That's awesome! Raspberry Pi and Framework are basically the only technology companies I can genuinely get excited about right now, so it's awesome seeing them continue to throw everything they have at their mission statement.

Nice job on the x-ray microscope images, I have a GE Nanomex at work that we use for failure analysis, it's amazing how useful that kind of detailed imaging of the internal structure of a PCB can be.

A new Pi Zero, yes! Also a (somewhat custom CPU) I see hints to the Raspberry Pi 5 or 6 having an in-house CPU design, with a bunch of features.

I remember the Amiga 100 had signatures of Jay Miner, Dave Dean and the paw print of Miner's dog on the inside of the case.

Jeff, I like your channel very much. I also like EC's. I'm very glad to see you give him a mention in support. Glad to see you reinforce another rather than compete against.

This is the only channel where I click the thumbs up button before watching the video - well done as always Jeff

This is great! I love the Pi 0W for low-power projects that need more than a microcontroller. The 02W's extra power will be great for some of my projects that need just a little more oomph improve responsiveness.

Love your bloopers Jeff! Thanks for adding them.

Heh. Your channel and Explaining Computers channel - along with ETA Prime's channel of course - are the only YouTube channels I watch regarding anything microcontroller. You for the clustering/Pi-based stuff, ETA Prime for the microcontroller gaming stuffs, and Chris at Explaining Computers because he's got a comfy feel like I'm watching a BBC educational program from the 80s. I'm lucky that the Overland Park, KS Microcenter is about 2 miles from my house but they're always sold out of the Raspberry Pi 8GB I want.

Thanks for taking power measurements! I gotta get my hands on one of these; I use a Pi Zero to drive one of the HQ cameras in an astrophotography setup (with some complicated USB network trickery to connect it to the main Pi 4 running the whole setup) and download/transfer times for each long exposure are pretty atrocious on the original Zero. A beefed up CPU would probably really help here!

I am so excited to get my hands on one of these. My original Zero W's are still going 3 years strong outside in the Florida heat!

Its now 2024 and the pi zero 2w is still the best pi showing the spirit of what pi should be. The pi 5 is nice, but too expensive so you may aswell buy an n100 mini pc at that price.

Ordered one the moment it was available. Not as interesting as the Pico, but still, $15 for a reasonably powerful computer messes with my 8-bit brain. Good job with the x-ray. I bet they thought it might take longer for that one to be discovered.

On the original Pi Zero W it made a difference to disable USB power. You might try that too, if you're looking to present minimum power requirements. I used a Pi Zero W in a "Linux on Solar power" project. It turned everything off and only woke up every minute to record solar power stats from the Solar Charge Controller.